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" But weak is change, but strengthless time, To take the light from heaven, or climb The hills of heaven with wasting feet. Songs they can stop that earth found meet, But the stars keep their ageless rhyme ; Flowers they can slay that spring thought sweet,... "
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Living English poets [selections from their works].

English poets - 1883 - 364 pages
...change, and time so strong, To weave the robes of life and rend And weave again till life have end. But weak is change, but strengthless time, To take...thought sweet, But the stars keep their spring sublime ; Actions and agonies control, And life and death, but not the soul. Because man's soul is man's God...
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Living English Poets: MDCCCLXXXII.

1883 - 378 pages
...change, and time so strong, To weave the robes of life and rend And weave again till life have end. But weak is change, but strengthless time, To take...thought sweet, But the stars keep their spring sublime ; Actions and agonies control, And life and death, but not the soul. Because man's soul is man's God...
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Modern Poet Prophets: Essays Critical and Interpretative

William Norman Guthrie - 1897 - 376 pages
..." Grand Perhaps," but bear clear witness to the deity of the soul itself? " But weak is change, bnt strengthless time, To take the light from heaven or...the stars keep their spring sublime; Passions and pleasure can defeat, Actions and agonies control, And life and death, but not the *OH/. Because man's...
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Modern Poets of Faith, Doubt, & Paganism: And Other Essays

Arthur Temple Lyttelton, Edward Stuart Talbot - 1904 - 374 pages
...contest with " things " ; and here we may hope we find the poet's real faith. : But weak is change, hut strengthless time, To take the light from heaven,...found meet, But the stars keep their ageless rhyme j Flowers they can slay that spring thought sweet, But the stars keep their spring sublime ; Passions...
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Selected Poems

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1905 - 422 pages
...change, and time so strong, To weave the robes of life and rend And weave again till life have end. But weak is change, but strengthless time, To take...thought sweet, But the stars keep their spring sublime j Passions and pleasures can defeat, Actions and agonies control, And life and death, but not the soul....
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Swinburne: A Lecture Delivered Before the University on April 30, 1909

John William Mackail - 1909 - 34 pages
...change, and time so strong • , To weave the robes of life and rend And weave again till life have end. But weak is change, but strengthless time To take...wasting feet. Songs they can stop that earth found meet, Actions and agonies control, And life and death, but not the soul : Because man's soul is man's God...
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Songs Before Sunrise and Songs of Two Nations

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1917 - 264 pages
...change, and time so strong, To weave the robes of life and rend And weave again till life have end. But weak is change, but strengthless time, To take...keep their ageless rhyme ; Flowers they can slay that sprin g thought sweet, But the stars keep their spring sublime ; Passions and pleasures can defeat,...
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Selections from A.C. Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1919 - 312 pages
...change, and time so strong, To weave the robes of life and rend And weave again till life have end. But weak is change, but strengthless time, To take...thought sweet, But the stars keep their spring sublime : Because man's soul is man's God still, What wind soever waft his will Across the waves of day and...
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Studies of English Poets

John William Mackail - 1926 - 272 pages
...change, and time so strong To weave the robes of life and rend And weave again till life have end. But weak is change, but strengthless time To take...wasting feet. Songs they can stop that earth found meet, Actions and agonies control, And life and death, but not the soul : Because man's soul is man's God...
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selections from swinburne

154 pages
...change, and time so strong, To weave the robes of life and rend And weave again till life have end. no But weak is change, but strengthless time, To take...found meet, But the stars keep their ageless rhyme; 115 Flowers they can slay that spring thought sweet, But the stars keep their spring sublime; Passions...
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